rspt

Introduction

Toy path-tracer written in Rust, written as a learning exercise. My motivation is two-fold:

• I wanted to learn a new programming language. My favourite languages are C++ and Haskell, and Rust seems to take some of the best things of both.
• Computer graphics has always been my favourite programming topic, and I had been wanting to write a path-tracer for the last two years.

Running the program

To run the renderer just run the test.sh or test.bat script. It will compile the program and render a sample scene.

Future plans

• Write a proper documentation.
• Create a proper material definition format.
• Add support for texture mapping and skyboxes.
• Add support for geometry instancing.
• Use SIMD for intersection tests.
• Improve the BVH building code, the current one is excedingly naive.
• Improve the sampling strategy.